Fanny Kemble Quotes
d. 1893 England
Fanny Kemble (November 27, 1809 – 1893) was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century.
Also known as: Frances Anne Kemble, Kemble, Fanny
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
Better be cheated to the last,
Than lose the blessed hope of truth.
Better trust all and be deceived,
And weep that trust, and that deceiving,
Than doubt one heart that, if believed,
Had blessed one's life with true believing.
What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen—the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will—are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.
A sacred burden is this life ye bear,
Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly,
Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly;
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin,
But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.